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Judith DeGroat

@jdegroat.bsky.social

historian, modern France, gender, loves goldens, cats, knitting, gardening, & justice. she/her. trans rights are human rights.

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Neguse: “Where's Safe America Media headquartered?”

Noem: “I don’t know.”

Neguse: “I don’t know either. We can't find it…You want the American people to believe that this is all above board, that a $143 million of taxpayer money just happened to go to this one company that doesn't have a headquart

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Jeez. 🙄

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Wow, security agents at Orly are grumpy this morning. 🙃

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Powerful MAGA

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After Detention, Families Stranded in Border Town Face Harrowing Journey Home Parents and children from a detention center in Texas found themselves dropped at a border town shelter with few means to leave.

After detaining children and parents for weeks, or months, inside Dilley detention center, ICE is dumping them at a shelter in Laredo, TX. They are often thousands of miles away from where they were arrested, with no money to get back home. THREAD (1/)
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/02/i...

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Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

02.03.2026 12:45 — 👍 7578    🔁 2225    💬 101    📌 108

“Trump isn’t responsible for the outcomes of his own war” is honestly an accurate representation of how Republicans want Trump to be treated, like a very special toddler.

01.03.2026 18:21 — 👍 464    🔁 133    💬 12    📌 7

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

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UNC-CH Will ‘Scrap’ New Recording Policy, Chancellor Says The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted.

Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings.

This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.

01.03.2026 01:33 — 👍 541    🔁 209    💬 8    📌 13
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Fact-checking statements made by Trump to justify U.S. strikes on Iran President Donald Trump accusation that Iran is building nuclear weapons that could "soon" reach the U.S. is contradicted by a 2025 federal government assessment that said Iran is years away from the a...

President Donald Trump's accusation that Iran is building nuclear weapons that could "soon" reach the U.S. is contradicted by a 2025 federal government assessment that said Iran is years away from the ability to produce long-range missiles. (via @politifact.bsky.social)
https://to.pbs.org/4slHtik

01.03.2026 01:32 — 👍 424    🔁 207    💬 49    📌 16

🫂 same but not. ❤️

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“Shah Alam’s death comes just 15 months after his arrival in Buffalo in December 2024. He is survived by his wife and two sons.” Border Patrol leaves nearly blind, non-English-speaking refugee to die in the winter cold a few miles from his home

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F**king extortionists 🤬

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More, & serious, criminality.

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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

26.02.2026 01:43 — 👍 9391    🔁 4612    💬 233    📌 673

The ICE surge in Minnesota isn’t over — it just moved outside of the Metro.

ICE agents are still terrorizing innocent people in the suburbs. They’re targeting bus stops and hospitals and parks and being more deceptive than ever.

This isn’t over until ICE is out of the ENTIRE state.

20.02.2026 20:41 — 👍 796    🔁 402    💬 28    📌 16

By the way, Trump still has not publicly congratulated the U.S. women's hockey team. That seems to be lost in all this. No statement. No social media post. No call to them. Nothing.

24.02.2026 17:36 — 👍 2077    🔁 481    💬 71    📌 29

this is an absolutely astonishing feat of independent journalism, top to bottom, and proves that the only way to truly fight billionaires is not being funded by them. just…read the whole thing.

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👇👇👇😘

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Alabama House passes bill that could weaken state environmental protections | Alabama Reflector The bill would require the state to not have stricter environmental laws than the federal government alarming Democrats and environmentalists.

Alabama Republicans could be working to find ways to improve their constituents’ health. Instead, they’re advancing legislation that would roll back environmental regulations that help limit pollution, allowing more toxic chemicals into the atmosphere.

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This whole 🧵

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Wonderful news!

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Title: "Literary ecologists celebrate the successful reintroduction of rare species to the Yorkshire moors."

Image: The sun is going down on a bleak windswept moor, various figures and trees are each labelled as one of the following:

1. Classic literary Cathy and Heathcliff

2. Young, carefree Cathy and heathcliff

3. Sexy Hollywood Cathy and Heathcliff

5. Ghost Cathy, tormented Heathcliff

5. Spooky tree

Title: "Literary ecologists celebrate the successful reintroduction of rare species to the Yorkshire moors." Image: The sun is going down on a bleak windswept moor, various figures and trees are each labelled as one of the following: 1. Classic literary Cathy and Heathcliff 2. Young, carefree Cathy and heathcliff 3. Sexy Hollywood Cathy and Heathcliff 5. Ghost Cathy, tormented Heathcliff 5. Spooky tree

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

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So the previous strikes didn’t “totally obliterate” their nuclear capability then?

The same lies and propaganda over and over

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In a note embedded on top of an FAQ question, “What is the average length of stay for the aliens?” Tim Kaiser, the deputy chief of staff for US Citizenship and Immigration Services, asked David Venturella, a former GEO Group executive whom The Washington Post described as an adviser overseeing an ICE division that manages detention center contracts, to “Please confirm” that the average stay for the new mega detention centers would be 60 days.

Venturella replied in a note that remained visible on the published document, “Ideally, I'd like to see a 30-day average for the Mega Center but 60 is fine.”

In a note embedded on top of an FAQ question, “What is the average length of stay for the aliens?” Tim Kaiser, the deputy chief of staff for US Citizenship and Immigration Services, asked David Venturella, a former GEO Group executive whom The Washington Post described as an adviser overseeing an ICE division that manages detention center contracts, to “Please confirm” that the average stay for the new mega detention centers would be 60 days. Venturella replied in a note that remained visible on the published document, “Ideally, I'd like to see a 30-day average for the Mega Center but 60 is fine.”

NEW: DHS left embedded comments in a PDF outlining its plans to warehouse immigrants, identifying the architects and laying bare the gross extent of its regulatory capture. Great scoop by @regret.bsky.social:

www.wired.com/story/metada...

20.02.2026 18:43 — 👍 1591    🔁 741    💬 27    📌 46

The feeling I have about Dem leadership &, sadly, local Dem leadership. Courage.

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